EPHESIANS 1:1 @evn VEfe,sw|# {C} The words evn VEfe,sw| are absent from several important witnesses (î46 a* B* 424c 1739) as well as from manuscripts mentioned by Basil and the text used by Origen. Certain internal features of the letter as well as Marcion’s designation of the epistle as “To the La... [ Continue Reading ]
EPHESIANS 1:6 h-j The Textus Receptus, following ac D G K L y most minuscules itd, g vg syrh goth, substitutes evn h|- for h-j. The latter reading was preferred by a majority of the Committee on the basis of (_a_) the weight of external support (î46 a* A B P 6 33 88 330 424c 436 1319 1837 1908 2127... [ Continue Reading ]
EPHESIANS 1:14 o[ {B} It is difficult to decide whether copyists altered o[j to o[ in order to make it agree with the gender of pneu/ma, or whether o[ became o[j by attraction to the gender of the following avrrabw,n, according to a usual idiom. On the basis of what was taken to be superior extern... [ Continue Reading ]
EPHESIANS 1:15 kai. th.n avga,phn th.n eivj pa,ntaj tou.j a`gi,ouj {B} The shorter reading kai. th.n eivj pa,ntaj tou.j a`gi,ouj (î46 a* B P 33 1739 _al_) appears to be the result of an accident in transcription, occasioned by homoeoarcton (th.n … th,n). If, as some scholars have suggested, the sho... [ Continue Reading ]
EPHESIANS 1:18 @u`mw/n# {C} Because of the weight of Greek and versional witnesses that support u`mw/n, the Committee decided that the word should be included in the text, but, in view of its absence from î46 B 33 1739 and other significant witnesses, that it should be enclosed within square brack... [ Continue Reading ]